12/29/2015 Minutes CITY OF GRAND ISLAND,NEBRASKA
MINUTES OF CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
December 29, 2015
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a Special Meeting of the City Council of the City of
Grand Island, Nebraska was conducted in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 100 East First
Street, on December 29, 2015.Notice of the meeting was given in The Grand Island Independent
on December 23, 2015.
Mayor Jeremy L. Jensen called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. The following City Council
members were present: Mitch Nickerson, Mark Stelk, Jeremy Jones, Chuck Haase, Michelle
Fitzke, Vaughn Minton, Roger Steele, and Mike Paulick. Councilmembers Linna Dee Donaldson
and Julie Hehnke were absent. The following City Officials were present: City Administrator
Marlan Ferguson, Assistant to the City Administrator Nicki Stoltenberg, Interim Finance
Director William Clingman, Assistant City Attorney Stacy Nonhof, and Public Works Director
John Collins.
INVOCATION was given by Mayor Jensen followed by the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
ORDINANCES:
Councilmember Haase moved "that the statutory rules requiring ordinances to be read by title on
three different days are suspended and that ordinances numbered:
#9568 - Consideration of Administrative Fees for Individual Fire Pension Accounts
be considered for passage on the same day upon reading by number only and that the City Clerk
be permitted to call out the number of these ordinances on second reading and then upon final
passage and call for a roll call vote on each reading and then upon final passage."
Councilmember Nickerson seconded the motion. Upon roll call vote, all voted aye. Motion
adopted.
Councilmember Hehnke arrived at 7:10 p.m.
#9568 - Consideration of Administrative Fees for Individual Fire Pension Accounts
Motion by Stelk, second by Minton to approve Ordinance#9568.
City Clerk: Ordinance #9568 on first reading. All those in favor of the passage of this ordinance
on first reading, answer roll call vote. Upon roll call vote, Councilmembers Nickerson, Stelk,
Jones, Hehnke, Fitzke, Minton, and Steele voted aye. Councilmembers Haase and Paulick noted
no. Motion adopted.
City Clerk: Ordinance #9568 on second and final reading. All those in favor of the passage of
this ordinance on second and final reading, answer roll call vote. Upon roll call vote,
Councilmembers Nickerson, Stelk, Jones, Hehnke, Fitzke, Minton, and Steele voted aye.
Councilmembers Haase and Paulick noted no. Motion adopted.
Page 2,City Council Regular Meeting,December 22,2015
Mayor Jensen: By reason of the roll call votes on first reading and then upon second and final
readings, Ordinance #9568 is declared to be lawfully adopted upon publication as required by
law.
PAYMENT OF CLAIMS:
Motion by Hehnke, second by Paulick to approve the claims for the period of December 23,
2015 through December 29, 2015, for a total amount of$1,171,545.95. Unanimously approved.
ADJOURNMENT: T,e m eting was adjourned at 5:56 p.m.
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Nicki Stoltenberg
Assistant to the City Administrator
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